Learn how to identify critical steps for successfully designing a watershed wise landscape including: sizing and siting the rainwater capture area, developing a palette of climate-appropriate plants, applying key design principles, and laying out a successful planting plan. This advanced workshop is geared for folks who have already taken the California Friendly and/or the Turf Removal workshops. Registration is required.
Every year, Coastal Cleanup Day brings the community together to remove trash and plastic pollution at beaches and waterways throughout the state. This year cleanup events include a month-long virtual event with self-guided cleanups as well as in-person events throughout Orange County on September 18th from 9 a.m. to noon. Registration required for both virtual self-guided cleanups and in-person events.
Save our Beach invites you to participate in a beach cleanup at Seal Beach. They provide bags and disinfected pickers. Participants must provide gloves and masks. Pre-registration is required.
Learn how to design a yard using the four principles of gorgeous and watershed wise landscaping: building a healthy living soil sponge, holding rainwater on your property, selecting local native plants that minimize water use and maximize biodiversity, and controlling your irrigation. Registration required.
Learn how to remove your lawn and make the right moves for creating a gorgeous, watershed wise landscape including: removing turf without the use of chemicals, replacing it with climate-appropriate plantings, keeping it in place but maintaining it in an organic manner. Registration is required.
Registration and signed digital waiver required. To Register contact John Wadsworth vicechair@newportbeach.surfrider.org.
Join Surfrider Newport Beach at the Santa Ana River for a cleanup at their Adopt-A-Channel site! Come together as a community on an international scale to clean our beaches, parks, and waterways. Meet at the blue tent at the river trail. Registration required.
Learn how to identify critical steps for successfully designing a watershed wise landscape including: sizing and siting the rainwater capture area, developing a palette of climate-appropriate plants, applying key design principles, and laying out a successful planting plan. This advanced workshop is geared for folks who have already taken the California Friendly and/or the Turf Removal workshops. Registration is required.
Learn how to save money and water by repairing and maintaining your irrigation system and find out the easy way to update sprinklers to drip irrigation. Registration required.
Help protect recently installed new plantings in Big Canyon by removing invasive plants that pose a huge threat to displacing native plant communities and wildlife at the Bay. Meet at 9am at the project site entrance and be sure to follow directions that will be included in your confirmation email. Note: Google Maps will lead you astray. Registration required.
Registration and signed digital waiver required.
Look for the blue Surfrider tent at Tower 74. All volunteers or their parent/guardian (if under 18) must sign a waiver before participating in our cleanups. Waivers may be requested in advance.
